Showing posts with label Friedman. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Chip and ScottsDale: Part II

Okay, so remember when I wrote Part I to this post back in March and said there would be Part II coming shortly? Well, shortly turned into one month.

There are some really good pictures from the trip that were on Nana's camera and my Editor finally got them (it's about time, dude) so off we go:

I'll start off with a couple shots of Mom and me

I had a lot of fun with the waitress at the restaurant Papa took us to the first night
Nana and I colored on the back pavilion of the hotel one morning
And we also spent some time in the pool, first waiting for Dad to come down the slide...
And then hanging out with these ducks that thought the pool was their personal pond (alliteration is key to a successful blogger). One of them told me his name was Vincent and he was Reggie's cousin, if you remember Reggie from Part I.
Catching up on the Thomas Friedman book I started on the plane ride out.
Okay, enough reading on vacation, back to the pool where the food was exquisite.
Ten minutes after finishing my grilled cheese (I don't play by that old "have to wait a half hour after eating" shenanigan), here's me getting ready to take my first dive into the pool...
Greg Lougainis, I am not, but the judges liked my personality so I got 10s across the board (even got one from the Slovakia judge, who hadn't given out a 10 in diving since the '64 Olympics.
And then I went riding on a dolphin... oh wait, nevermind.
And this was the last night we were there. There was a big business dinner of Papa's that he took us to. The rest of the folks were mingling while I, as usual, was waiting in anticipation for the food.
Now you're probably thinking, "Wait, did Mabel even make the trip?" Yes, she did, but she was only six weeks old so she couldn't swim, read, talk to the waitress, go to the business dinner, or any of the other jazz I did. I'll tell ya what she could do, though, and that was sleep outside by the pool, and by day two she had that move down.